Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minnesota's Clark MacGregor, 48, an able, articulate campaigner, faces a long uphill battle to thwart Hubert Humphrey's return to the Senate. They are competing for the seat Eugene McCarthy abandoned. Both have minor primary opposition...
...Resurrection of Richard Nixon (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Witcover maintains that former Texas Governor John Connally, a power in the state and Lyndon Johnson's closest political ally, actually worked secretly through most of the campaign to raise money for Nixon while publicly ignoring Hubert Humphrey...
Then, according to Witcover, with less than a week to go before Election Day, Connally apparently came to believe that Humphrey would carry the state. So Connally leaped on the bandwagon and finally bestowed public blessings on his own party's candidate at a huge Houston rally. Johnson too, after immobilizing himself and his entire Cabinet during most of the campaign, appeared at the rally. He also loosened some Texas money that had been withheld from Humphrey. The support and money may have swung the state...
...Connally's help, the story goes, was a strong, implied promise that he would become Secretary of Defense-Nixon wanted a Democrat for the job-if the Republicans carried Texas and won. Although Texas had been regarded as leaning toward Nixon shortly before the vote, Humphrey took its 25 electoral votes, but by only 39,000 out of 3.1 million votes cast. Witcover quotes a Nixon insider as saying after the campaign that Connally could have gotten the Defense job if "he had had a few more guts," meaning if he had not switched...
Since 1944, when F.D.R. ran for a fourth term, Frank Sinatra has loyally come to the aid of his party. Among those his voice has coaxed funds for are Jack Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and in 1966, California Governor Pat Brown. Now, says Sinatra, he will sing for Republican Ronald Reagan, up for re-election next fall. Said the singer-actor with a straight face: "It is my duty as a citizen to put aside partisan considerations when I think the other party's candidate is clearly the outstanding candidate...